The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions

The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions, Clifford A. Pickover, 2002. 400 pp., $29.95 cloth. ISBN 0-691-07041-4. Princeton University Press, 41 William St., Princeton, NJ 08540, [phone].

Over the centuries, much literature has described magic squares and related number, letter, and symbol configurations. Particularly accessible sources have included a nine-- page introduction by Martin Gardner in his second Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions compilation (1961) and...